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Something alone at night longs for the sightOf a woman sitting at a desk, the lightCast by a lamp upon the desk, a glowOver her shoulders, gilding longing inA mythology of feelings, quietlyApart from actual experience. That longing, something ignorant of life,Lives out of time in a flickering its own,A momentary impression, independentlySuspended sense ofContinue reading “A Certain Slant”

I am seeing the wayeven small things expressed just soin casual correspondence particularly in this age ofabundant written expression can be clarified bybreaking the prose into lines only thatand suddenly the mundane becomes profounda shopping list rivalingthe Sistine Chapel for meaningful attentionin our busy lives KLK 9/8/16

These days seem tawdry. Take the roads and note Proliferation of neglect, a pox Of potholes barely kept at bay by rote Repair between the storms, darned holey socks, Revealing our corruption everywhere. The ways by which we transport, both ourselves And cargo, bifurcated by despair, Take some one way, most otherwise, which tells AContinue reading “You’ve Got the Look”

Everyday things if they last long enough in good condition wind up more interesting to others than their owners. There is something backwards about that. Let us start by considering our own lives and contemporary customs. Yard and garage sales, and also estate sales which more specifically mean someone has died and left stuff, attractContinue reading “Something Old, Something Borrowed”

Perhaps you wouldn’t think that research on doing research would be a worthwhile study. My first reaction is that it seems a bit like monitoring and surveillance, someone studying the studiers. However, on further consideration it is no different from time and efficiency studies. Also, as Buckminster Fuller observed, many developments can happen by chance.Continue reading “Do You Really DO All Your Own Research?”

The Ghost Has No Intelligence Without Us Being There The enthusiasm about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) seems to miss something, an obvious question, about the actual quality and character of AI-generated content and conversations. I have to think about this and express the actual problem accurately. The problem is less with AI thanContinue reading “The Missing Linkages in AI”

There are some faculties of human consciousness direct introspection cannot explain. For example, the way our minds make sense of words, concepts, and perceived phenomena. Sitting under a tree and reflecting directly on our experience of how we understand the difference between a chair we sit on and a chair on a board of directorsContinue reading “You Can’t Get There From Here”

It has been well documented to the point of being a cliché that when a person has the grave misfortune of losing a sock in the laundry that if he or she dons the remaining sock invariably there is a sensation on the other foot of the missing sock being present. This is, of course,Continue reading “The Science of Laundry, Part I”